Gollancz list (was: Re: Book of the New Sun won the contest!)

Greg Bates · 07 Aug 2011, 01:54 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: gregory.a.bates at gmail.com (Greg Bates)
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 21:54:57 -0400
Subject: (urth) Gollancz list (was: Re: Book of the New Sun won the
	contest!)
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Have you not read The Left Hand of Darkness? I completely agree with you on
The Dispossessed but I definitely think LHoD is worth your time.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Jane Delawney <jane_delawney at sky.com> wrote:

> On 28/07/11 16:27, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
>> Sigh. Not a single book by a woman made the list.
>>
> Dan'l, sorry to change the header and divert the thread but as I've often
> noted before I will not receive my list mails back unless I do this. That's
> Sky Mail aka gmail for you :(
>
> On your comment: well as a woman I care far less about the lack of female
> presence in the top 10 than I do about the *absence* of Ringworld and also
> The Disposessed.
>
> Praise the Lord, or the higher power of your choice, that neither of these
> made it!
>
> Niven is one of the most sexist male SF writers ever IMO (so even if
> Ringworld itself isn't sexist (I don't know, because I'll never read a Niven
> ever again after looking briefly at the Man-Kzin Wars / Known Space series);
> Le Guin is ... well I don't know what to say. I did not manage to read more
> than 1 chapter of The Disposessed; she was so intent on banging her drum and
> drilling into our heads the contrast between her idyllic but backward
> egalitarians and the technologically advanced sexist b*****ds. Hated the
> sheer manipulative lameness. Hated every sentence of it.
>
> Only Le Guin adult fic I ever managed to finish was The Lathe of Heaven. On
> the other hand I loved the original Earthsea series, though not the
> follow-up recantations (should have said 'quod scripsi scripsi, deal with
> it, IMO).
>
> OTOH I will almost certainly buy the new Gollancz BOTNS eds when they
> appear, how great to see Gene voted most wanted reprint. Fabulous!!
>
> JD
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Antonin Scriabin
>> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Great!  Glad TBONS is getting a new edition ... another one for the
>>> collection :-)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Petersen
>>> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.**com <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just got this in my inbox today... expect a snazzy new edition from
>>>> Gollancz!
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gollancz50.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -DOJP
>>>>
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